A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2001 (DOST Vol. IX).
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Quotation dates: 1498-1529, 1582-1632, 1686
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Sliding, Slidding, Slyd(d)ing, vbl. n. [ME and e.m.E. slydynge (c1325).] The action of sliding or slipping in various senses of Slid(e v., also personified as Sister Slyding, lapsing, falling into error (Slid(e v. 7.) —a1499 Contemplacioun of Synnaris 1238 (Asl.).
Of thousand milȝeoun ȝeris the slyding [Arund. slidding] Becaus thi panis ar perpetuall Of that bad bale is bot a begynnyng 1529 Lynd. Complaynt 370.
Thay culde nocht keip thare feit frome slyding 1582 Misc. Stair Soc. I 108.
Howbeit it micht appeir that ony endis of letteris be slydding imprentis nocht 1632 Lithgow Trav. vi 262.
If any of them had missed [his footing], his sliding downe had miscarried them both ouer the Rocke 1686 G. Stuart Joco-Ser. Disc. 38.
Sister Slyding
